Record Store Day

All posts tagged Record Store Day

Record Store Day, April 21, 2012

Posted by Musicofourheart on April 22, 2012
Posted in: Music. Tagged: , , , , . 3 comments
Record Store Day

Record Store Day (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I love the ambiance and excitement that Record Store Day offers. I enjoy supporting the independent record store owner and the small retail chains. Record Store Day is my favorite shopping day of the year and in 2011 we had two Record Store Days, one in April and one on Black Friday.

It was my original intention to shop Record Store Day 2012 at Cutler’s in New Haven on Saturday. As luck would have it I had to be out-of-state in Massachusetts on Saturday for a company in-service and evening family plans elsewhere in Connecticut. Things weren’t looking promising to squeeze in some shopping time with extensive travel and plans.

I devised a new strategy for Record Store Day 2012. I used the Record Store Day locator on the Record Store Day Web site and located a Newbury Comics Record Store in Northampton, Massachusetts in direct line with my return trip on I-91. It was a new store for me and I wasn’t sure what their inventory would be or what I would find later in the afternoon on Saturday.

As luck would have it. I found the Newbury Comics store easily (thanks to Garmin GPS). They had a pretty well stocked Record Store Day section in the store. I debated over a couple of items (I plan to visit Cutler’s on Tuesday to complete my first goal…) and placed them back in the steps.

Here is the loot I purchased on Record Store Day 2012. Remember its all about the collectibles ;)

  1. Peter Tosh – Picture Disk – Legalize It as a Dub Club Mix! Echoldelic Remixes (4 different ones)
  2. Joey Ramone – Rock N Roll Is The Answer – 7″
  3. Kick Out The Jams – MC5/Afrika Bamnaataa – Colored Vinyl 7″ – Rhino
  4. Bruce Springsteen – Rocky Ground 7″
  5. The White Stripes – hand springs –  7″ Red Vinyl
  6. Respect – Otis Redding – Stax Volt  / Aretha Franklin – Atlantic 7″ Colored Vinyl
  7. Paul Revere & The Raiders – Ride Your Pony, B/W {You’re A] Bad Girl 7″ Red Vinyl
  8. Gary Clark Jr. Presents HWUL Raw Cuts Vol 1. 12″
Related articles

Iggy Pop is Record Store Day 2012 Ambassador!

Posted by Musicofourheart on February 8, 2012
Posted in: Music. Tagged: , , , , . 1 comment

Record Store Day is proud to announce the appointment of IGGY POP to the post of Record Store Day 2012 Ambassador.

Iggy Pop Record Store Day Ambassador 2012

A person should have a personality. You won’t get one dicking around on a computer. It helps to go somewhere where there are other persons. Persons who are interested in something you are. That’s how a record store or any shop that’s got some life to it should work. It’s not about selling shit. I got my name, my musical education and my personality all from working at a record store during my tender years. Small indie shops have always been a mix of theater and laboratory. In the 50′s and 60′s the teen kids used to gather after school at these places to listen free to the latest singles and see if they liked the beat. You could buy the disc you liked for 79 cents and if you were lucky meet a chick. Clerks in these places became managers, (like Brian Epstein), label heads, (Jack Holzman) and Faces on album covers (like me).

Personally I feel best in a store that, while staying small and socially relaxed, still keeps a complete variety of music types and non musical recordings on offer. I’m aware though that a lot of great places are genre-specific, like dance hall shops in Jamaica or Compas here in Little Haiti. In Europe and on the West coast the same goes on for Punk and Goth. All of this is cool and has a much bigger future than most people realize today. When the record and record store businesses began to die at the turn of the new century, they deserved it because they got too big too boring and too plastic.

As Record Store Day Ambassador for 2012 I feel like a representative from some exotic jungle full of life and death and sex and anger, called upon to wear a leopard skin and translate joy to the world of the dead. --IGGY POP

Related articles

Record Store Day, Black Friday Edition, 11/25/11

Posted by Musicofourheart on November 19, 2011
Posted in: Music, Record Store. Tagged: , , , , , , . 1 comment

BF logo

I make it a rule each year to never venture out on Black Friday. I just can’t deal with the crowds and I have done my stint as a retail sales person many years earlier. Its left its scars. But now I have a raison d’etre to defy that tradition ;)

Attention vinyl junkies and music collectors of all ages/genders. Record Store Day Black Friday Edition is happening on Friday November 25, 2011.

Sundazed Records

Image via Wikipedia

I highly recommend that you support your local record store on Record Day Black Friday (well every day actually).  Black Friday will be celebrated by approximately 900 independently owned record stores/shops in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Holland and the UK.

The list of specialty releases can be found here. The pull down menu with more specifics is located here.

So do you see anything that interests you to venture out on Black Friday? I did and then some… (look below) ;)

The major contributor to Record Store Day is the reissue label company, Sundazed. Sundazed Music Inc.  has been around since 1989. They do a fantastic job of coordinating reissues with the major labels such as Sony/BMG Legacy, Arista Records and Verve Records. Browse on over to their Web site and drool at what they offer record collectors. You’ll be amazed at the breadth and depth of their catalog.

Take a look at the Sundazed Record Store Day Black Friday page here.

I plan to write a more extensive blog post, if not a feature article about what Bob Irwin of Sundazed  is accomplishing. Heck I might even make a road trip up to Coxsackie, NY. Now that would be a fun pilgrimage.

When Black Friday comes
I’ll collect everything I’m owed
And before my friends find out
I’ll be on the road

Pictured below are some of the treasures I’ll be hunting for on Record Store Day Black Friday. Wish me luck ;)

.

Related articles

Support Record Store Day- April 16th

Posted by Musicofourheart on March 31, 2011
Posted in: Music. Tagged: , , , . Leave a Comment

RSD 2011 date

Record Store Day 2011 will be HUGE! ;)

Ozzy Osborne is the Official Ambassador.

Ozzy Seal

There are lots of exclusive Record Store Collector vinyl exclusives. Here is the latest list: http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases

This is my favorite record store item….

Grateful Dead’s first album available on vinyl in original mono mix!

Grateful Dead (LP)

DETAILS
Format: Vinyl
Label: Rhino
Release type: RSD Commercial Release
More Info: First time on vinyl in more than 40 years, cut from the original MONO tapes.

Tracks:

  • “The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
  • Beat It On Down The Line
  • Good Morning Little Schoolgir
  • Sitting On Top of the World
  • Cream Puff Wars
  • Morning Dew
  • New New Minglewood Blues
  • Viola Lee Blues

Be there or be square.

Support your local record store

Related Articles

Record Store Day 2010

Posted by Musicofourheart on April 17, 2010
Posted in: Activism, Events, Sonic Art. Tagged: , , , , . Leave a Comment

I know, I know, I have a ton of graduate school homework and I have had the week from hell and joy with income taxes, etc.

But I am heading out none the less to go join the vinyl and music junkie masses for Record Store Day 2010.

http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home

Tell you later where I went and what  I bought. Thanking my loving wife for the $25 gift certificate. You are the music of my heart Rosemary ~major kisses~

Later that day…

Ended up going to Cutler’s Record Shop in New Haven  I got this cool poster shown above. I love Cutlers Record Shop been shopping there since my New Haven university days :) They have a frequent buyers card, every $20 purchase you get a stamp, after 10 stamps they will give you $20 off your next purchase of $20 or more and a new card. So today I reached that goal ;)

My Loot ;)

Cream Remastered – Disraeli Gears

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Greatest Hits

John Lennon Singles Bag (very cool collectible for Record Store Day 2010)

John Lennon Singles Bag (limited edition) Capitol/EMI:
Individually numbered Kraftpak envelope with button & string closure; custom plastic adaptor hub
24” x 36” poster + three postcards
Three 45 RPM vinyl singles with replicated original artwork:
- Single 1: John Lennon “Mother” / Yoko Ono “Why”
- Single 2: John Lennon “Imagine” / John Lennon “It’s So Hard”
- Single 3: John Lennon “Watching the Wheels” / Yoko Ono “Yes, I’m Your Angel”